Preliminary Agenda

OPENING KEYNOTE

CIO PANEL SESSION

The Role of Technology in Digital E&P – Pitfalls & Successes

3. Understand How E&P CIO’s Evaluate The Value Of Their Current Technologies
1. Technology is a commodity: Examining how you are currently deriving real value from it
2. Examine how IT function quantifies, qualifies and measures E&P technology
3. How can IT prove the success of E&P data/information technology when revenue is difficult to directly link?
4. To build vs off the shelf: How can IT solutions be configured to drive more benefit to the business
5. Define future technological trends that will impact CIOs continual and long term evaluation of technology

4. Optimize Innovative Imaging Technology To Reduce Risk (Exploration) And Reduce Cost (Development)

1. Evaluate the current seismic technologies available in the E&P sector: Are they providing what you need?
2. Determine best practices to use innovative seismic technologies in a complex area like GOM?
3. Reduce risk and improve access to reserves that with latest imaging methods
4. Find best ways to tap into the benefits of supercomputing in the E&P sector

• Break the barriers of sound in seismic imaging and processing and reduce time in processing data by using new algorithms

5. The ultimate risk vs cost question: How can you gain speed and quality without sacrificing one for the other?

5. Use Mapping Technologies To Ensure Safety, Reduce Costs, And Prevent Production Loss

• Understand the potential dangers of not having mapping technologies in remote locations
• Tools to integrate warehouses and platform databases to support mapping technologies: Does the cost of software outweigh the benefit?
• In the event of a natural disaster, how do you utilize remote information of the abandoned platform for production re-start?
• Interrelate other types of data to mapping technologies to control crisis like terrorism, pandemics
• Utilize mapping technology to delocalize human resources from the asset to reduce cost and tap into global capabilities

6. Change The Form Of Teamwork, Increase Production And Improve Safety Through Effective Use Of E&P Technology

1. Understand the success of your current technologies by assessing the value they create for your workforce and the business
2. Ensure that your investment in technology allows and encourages  your staff to work as a team
3. What are the key challenges in using technology to safely change and improve the working environment?
4. Utilize high speed technology and applications to connect to subject matter experts even when offshore

7. Best Approaches To Keep Abreast With The Rapidly Changing Landscape Of Technology

• Understand how to keep the pace with technology development so your business runs smoothly during a system/application upgrade
• With everything hardwired and different versions around, how can upgrading to new systems not create havoc to current systems?
• Assess the current need and application for web delivery: How can you overcome challenges when the development of web delivery is still new and unstable?
• Many client applications do not perform on the web – how will this impact your operations?
• Cost effectively manage major changes and incompatibility issues caused by technology upgrades to underlying structures
• Is there a way to ensure the middleware application stays stable and plugs into the new version of the application?

8. Capitalise On The Richness And Functionality Of New Applications To Improve Your Data Access And Manipulation

• Examine how you currently utilize the functionality within new applications: Are you getting the best out of your assets?
• Invest in latest applications to capitalize on current market opportunity and find new assets/reserves that previously were unfeasible
• Identify potential pitfalls when implementing new applications with current systems
• How can new technologies allow easier transfer of files from one location to another?

9. Getting What’s Right For You – Are Your Solutions Mapping Against Your Business Objectives And Requirements?

• What is your criteria, current environment and what’s out there which is the best fit for you?
• Assessing what you want from a provider: The best of breed or uniformity, consistency and scalability?
• Identify the pieces of functionality that would work before implementing them
• How can you get different components from different providers and configure the interfaces so the components are working together?

SPOTLIGHT ON DATA

Data Integration

10.  Best Practices To Leverage Data Integration As A Key Step To Effective Systems Integration

• Examine your current structured and unstructured data sources: How deep is the problem?
• Determine optimal methods to fuse data together from different sources to provide users with a coherent vision of the data
• Looking at the information that came from different providers in a common way
• Addressing issues around subsurface data integration for a clear understanding of the well and accurate decision-making
• Defining the barriers to integrating internal data with disparate amounts of external data
• How can you effectively utilize middleware to aid systems integration?
• Set effective measurement standards to ensure data integration is accurately done over the long term

11.  Ingrain Knowledge Capture And Preservation Into Your Day-To-Day E&P Environment

• Change current practice to ensure you keep up with information as it comes in, classify it and maintain it for the long-term
• What happens when people touch the data? Effectively manage the heredity of the data as it gets transformed and reused; who touches it and what people think about it
• Build workforce systems to capture knowledge and develop authoritative data sources (corporate repositories) for efficient data access in the future
• Implement measurable, long term strategies to ensure process improvement with respect to data capture and data cleansing

12.  Evaluate The Role Data Standards Play In Data Integration

• The role of WITSML and PRODML – are there currently too many standards?
• Assess the pros and cons of a single, globally available interface as a gateway to non-seismic data i.e. single standard database
• Utilize data integration to better manage the connectivity around your well log repository data
• Determine how a common interface to your global energy information fits into your long term internal processing domain

13. Tactical Strategies To Ensure Effective Consolidation Of Diverse Database And Data Types

• Assess the viability of current tools that allow you to readily integrate various databases together
• Gain flexibility by moving away from isolated silos onto blade infrastructures running Linux or Windows which promise compatibility with any operating systems
• Optimize the increase in computer power to your applications through the consolidated platform
• Examine the challenges of data, information and systems acquisitions of a company during a merger – is there sufficient management to properly fund and staff the acquisition of data and information systems?
• Identify the gaps in classified data and understand how you can close them in a determined period of time

14. Overcome Potential Pitfalls In Plug-And-Play Ownership And Adopt A Real Solution To Integration

• Avoid potential pitfalls in achieving a seamless transition from old style applications and data management into new technologies and more open SOAs
• Who is responsible to see issues through as they come up? Identify provider/s responsible for addressing issues as they arise with your systems/applications
• Best practices to effectively manage the orchestration of versions between your middleware and end providers
• Tackling the issue of moving information from one system to the other – do you hardwire them or put them in an exchange format?
• Ensure information is written in a consistent manner by keeping your information in situ and using applications that coordinate with the middleware to access required data

Data Searching & Access

15. Best-In-Class Strategies To Extract Value Out Of Stored Information

• How do we clear up the mess when it comes to information management?
• Find innovative means of unlocking value in documents and unstructured data
• What kind of software and technical applications are available for data access and federation? Can your provider’s software do what they promise?
• Adopt useful methods of indexing data and ensure successful implementation among users

16. Three Steps To Greater Efficiency: Organize Data; Find Content; Execute Decisions

• Reduce the risk of exposure by ensuring that users have access to the most authoritative and current content
• Successful approaches to avoid inefficiency and unnecessary cost due to users re-creating knowledge
• Effective methods to shorten the process to get information onto your intranet site quickly so users can access it
• Ensure high content quality by providing administrative mechanisms such as assigning a monitor/process owner for a threaded stream of content
• What are the dangers of creating explicit knowledge repositories?

17. Achieve A Single Version Of The Truth: Can This Be A Reality?

• Improve work efficiency by providing multidisciplinary teams access to all information about an asset – facilities, models, lease papers, the contracts, etc
• Provide your partner/vendors role based access to databases to retrieve authorized information without jeopardizing data security
• Ensure transparency of how data or information is manipulated so users know exactly how that is going to affect their workflow and decision making
• Lower the risk of inaccurate decision making by updating the evolving interpretation of your reservoir and keeping it current

18. Evaluating The Next Generation Of Tools: Find The Best Solution To Help You Mine And Find Information Content In Large Data Volumes

• Examine your current data needs for your business unit and the potential impact of a new system on your E&P environment
• Identify the most useful tools available to expedite answers for questions posed to enormous data
• Utilize technology to effectively capture useful information, channel it into the right databases and makes it accessible to the right people
• What are the future trends of information management and how do they directly affect you?

19. Respond To A World Full Of Real Time Information: New Approaches To Deal With Ever Increasing Data Volumes

• Proven tips to guarantee access to operational real time data so it is readily available to users
• Execute effective decisions based on information that has context assigned to its data
• Utilize summary reports and load databases to provide users easy accessibility to information in a contextual area
• Best practices to roll out integration of work processes with the right data at the right time

20. Execute Enterprise Search Across Your Business In A Relevant And Specific Way For Greater Business Efficiency

• Take the first step towards effective data search: Do you have a clear understanding of the kind of data you are looking for?
• Key factors that determine the effectiveness of your search - finding all the right information about the asset in question
• How can you link your enterprise search with information that’s externally available?
• Assess how a pushback to costly enterprise type applications can affect your options and the performance of your selection
• A big swing towards OpenSource – Linux and other kinds of applications have proven that OpenSource programming can provide high quality software

21. Assess How A Web Based Approach To Accessing Data Can Truly Impact Your Bottom Line

• What are the steps involved in providing global access to data through a web based or GIS based browser?
• Make your search more effective by using search engines with greater intelligence
• Tools that can provide all-in-one connectivity on the web
• Utilize powerful search engines to find unstructured data information
• Prevent costly operational shutdowns by avoiding potential pitfalls involved in database hosting services with high speed lines
• Capitalize on a uniform web based approach to get more functionality via a common interface
• Implement process mechanisms to ensure high quality as you get more users to utilize the browser

Providing Context Around Data

22. Improve Overall Efficiency By Implementing The Best Work Processes That Support Assigning Context To Data

• Understand how contextual data can help you reduce the risk of the information being misunderstood
• Optimize lessons learnt – Ensure users have access to captured and documented lessons learnt
• Optimize innovative ways to set up the infrastructure/environment to provide ready access through sufficient context around data

23. Leverage Characterization Or Taxonomy To Provide Context Around Different Projects

• Understand the ontology or trivia taxonomy around production and determine how your current work processes support it
• Innovative project techniques and new ways of working to ensure sufficient context for effective utilization of information
• Successfully manage all G&G projects by using captured summary of past project information as an analog and reference for future projects
• How do you get passive knowledge, in the right context, to the right person, at the right time?

Data Management & Data Quality

24. Survive The Chaotic Environment Of Enormous, Multiple Data And Deliver Exceptional Data Quality

• Filter out the irrelevant and deliver the relevant – what are the issues around making these choices about data?
• Revamping data storage and retention guidelines
• E-discovery issues: How will users respond to metadata tagging and capping space?
• Lower your cost of hardware and operations by aligning systems more efficiently
• Achieve optimal visibility into your data assets without changing their representations in other systems
• Reduce duplicates and structure information to make data widely available and stabilize your data management systems
• Multigenerational data – unify large number of data sources to overcome disparity in data/databases

25. Emerge A Winner In The Race To Integrate Unstructured And Structured Data

• Understand your unstructured data component: How bad is it and does it serve any value?
• Examine the legal implication and risk exposure involved in unstructured data
• Derive and quantify economic benefits from managing unstructured data to ensure buy-in on all levels
• Evaluate specialty tools such as content management programs and metadata tagging to control your unstructured data environment
• Increase efficiency by utilizing search for content storage designed for unstructured documentations

Document & Content Management

26. Implement Effective Document Management Within Engineering And Large Scale Projects To Capture Long-Term Knowledge

1. What are the variables you have to work through before putting a document solution together?
2. Get the right information to the right people at the right time through effective electronic management systems and change management
3. Capture of documentation – is your information accurately used and captured within each project?
4. Identify key work processes needed to ensure content is constantly refreshed, is of the right quality, and provides value to the user
5. Address content management issues at the user level that inhibits them from being comfortable with knowledge management systems in place

Effective & Efficient Utilization of Information

27. Generate The Highest Business Value For Each Dollar Spent On Leading Edge Solutions In Information Management

• Quantify the benefits of new technology by demonstrating the value derived from a holistic understanding of the subsurface, the political risks and company competencies
• Measure the applicability of your solution by defining a logical sequence/work process between managing data and information, and knowledge management and decisions
• Ensure greater accuracy by applying new information to the pre-stacked data of your current model with the new velocity and interpretations around it
• Align your information systems with the implementation of new modules of your current system for future maintenance plans or budgeting processes

28. Optimise Business Intelligence In The Age Of The Digital Oil Field (DoF) And Reap The Returns DoF Promises

• Assess the technological solutions around business intelligence in the market place
• Create innovative ways to connect your business intelligence applications effectively with your databases, extract information and present it in a meaningful way
• Adapt and respond quickly to the changes in the market place by capturing both external and internal information
• Get the right KPIs and effectively assess your actions by correctly channeling your internal information
• Assess the ABCs of your production cost against your production revenue
• Do you have enough financial detail to assign cost accurately to the different elements of your project?
• Effectively implement the ABC information management practices and organize your information so it is readily available to investors
• Effective ways to determine if your different applications and systems are working right over the long term

29. Increase Your Business Efficiency Through Digital Intelligence Asset Projects

• E&P master data management - Is there a blueprint for success?
• Impact your bottom line by implementing a sustainable way of managing your robust visualization and asset hierarchies
• Ensure that your models are addressed in subsurface reality to avoid costly errors due to inaccurate abstractions of the subsurface
• Successfully execute online deployment of operations support staff in the production and operations lifecycle to ensure fast trouble shooting

SPOTLIGHT ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Knowledge Management – Moving From Theory To Practice

30. How Does Your Organization Define Knowledge Management (KM) In E&P And How Do You Use It To Extract KM’s Real Value?

• Where does KM belong in your company hierarchy and where are the boundaries in KM?
• Determine what your knowledge management program will deliver to the business and how it will generate profit over the long term
• Demonstrate how the transfer of knowledge from geologists and experts can increase E&P efficiency and production
• Leverage KM to decrease recovery time from natural disasters by quickly re-deploying your resources to cover production shortages

31. Win Management Buy-In By Defining A Clear Link Between KM And The Triad Of Time, Cost And Quality

• Reduce unnecessary cost by reusing existing expertise so you don’t repeat the same mistakes
• Speed up project operations and reduce the learning curve from one team to another by utilizing past best practices
• Utilize lessons learnt and effective methods to ensure high quality
• Reduce the learning curve by transferring knowledge from one project team/platform to another
• Competitive benchmarking vs functional benchmarking: assess the benefits and shortcomings of each and examine their applicability to your project

32. Move KM From The Theoretical To The Tactical – Link KM To Its Business Value And Corporate Objectives

• Drive the protection of your company’s intellectual capital and retain critical knowledge through KM
• Tap into the benefits of innovation and human capital management – what are the best practices around how organizations transfer knowledge?
• Effectively align the business and its governance aspects with knowledge sharing to reduce risk of misreporting to authorities
• Optimize KM by successfully creating user infinity groups that serve all key business areas across all streams of your company
• Provide users and their global peers easy access to knowledge and content by getting people in the grass roots involved

33. Practical Methods To Take The Ambiguity Out Of KM And Quantifying Its Benefits

• Ensure your KM program progressively matures and increasingly adds business value by implementing a robust health check process for your KM networks
• How do you roll out KM enterprise wide in a practical and measurable way?
• Assess how demographic knowledge plays in your organization so you can best strategize how to retain critical knowledge
• Leverage KM as a tool to ensure your human network is not satisficing and providing mediocre results across the business

34. Connect People: Link Subject Matter Experts To Communities Of Practice And Demonstrate Value From Knowledge Sharing

1. Understand how current social networking tools are democratizing knowledge sharing and their impact on your operations

• Provide quality assurance by capitalizing on the changing roles from subject matter expert to subject matter qualifier
• Speed up the diffusion of expertise and information through digital tools for faster knowledge sharing

2. Harness the power of your entire network of people internally and externally by utilizing social networking tools
3. Overcome human issues in your network of people to communicate and work with each other

• Overcome cultural barriers in strategic transactions involving people from different locations and backgrounds

4. How will digital natives change the way we work in the future?

35. Improve Project Visualization In Collaborative Work Environments For Better Knowledge Sharing

• Connect global subject matter experts with project engineers: how can you bring them together in a knowledge sharing environment?
• Improve communication among engineers by linking all relevant information about the asset in question
• Assess the latest tools and technologies that are making collaborative work environments happen globally in E&P

36. Avoid Potential Pitfalls In The KM System By Meeting All Business Requirements Prior To Implementation

• Effectively implement your KM system throughout the whole business by recollecting and connecting to the people
• Demonstrate your system’s profitability by ensuring the system is user-friendly and operating efficiently
• Use the support from upper management as an effective tool to achieve organisational buy-in

37. Implement A Dynamic Change Management Approach To KM And Deliver Results

• Successfully harvest knowledge throughout the E&P production process by making KM a part of day-to-day business
• What are the advantages of on-gear diffusion of expertise vs implementing KM with a very centralized structure?
• Build on your knowledge capturing databases by making KM a part each person’s work objective
• How can different functions work off a common platform and still have their own personal/business objectives?
• Leverage KM as a change management tool that brings about a real step change in capabilities

38.  Achieve More In A Resource-Constraint Environment: Set Building Blocks To Create A Working Environment Where People Thrive On Knowledge Sharing

• Assess the E&P demographics within your company: does the demographic conducively lend itself to the challenges around team working and collaboration?
• Achieve a successful result working from a group/team approach which allow the value from collaboration and knowledge sharing to come through
• Web immigrants vs web natives - How can you help today’s generation utilize current technology and prepared yourself for the web 2.0 wave?
• Best practices to achieve more targets with less people

39. Effectively Manage The Clash Between A Knowledge Specific Portal And A Company Portal To Prevent Disruptions To Your Knowledge Workflow

• Do your current work processes encourage users to utilize the portal and capture knowledge?
• Carefully tread the fine lines between a generic company portal and the E&P portal which captures the essence of EP information and knowledge
• What are some of the key issues around people’s uptake of moving data onto a common platform?
• Set effective benchmarks to ensure you are progressively moving forward with the implementation of technology

40. Parallel Case Studies On IM & KM – What Can The O&G Industry Learn From Finance And Pharmaceuticals Industry?

• How do O&G industry’s IM & KM practices match up against those in other industries?
• Pick up useful tips from other industries that have tremendous investment in human capital and a greater need for learning and collaboration
• Achieve effective collaboration by emulating the pharmaceutical business model of getting a drug to market quickly and compressing that business cycle
• Best insights on understanding which technologies deployed in other industries are the right fit for your business

ROUNDTABLE & PANEL SESSIONS
Gray 2K – The aging workforce

41. Future Manpower Requirements In The Industry And How It Will Impact Oil And Gas Operations

• Reduce the negative impact of resource shortage by successfully attracting workers and effectively utilizing the mixture of dwindling experts and new engineers
• Retain skilled employees by overcoming issues around change management, aging workforce and privacy rules that are steadily increasing
• Effectively deal with the turnover of personnel – how can you minimize losses when trained and skilled people leave
• Practical strategies to increase operational efficiency by achieving more with less people
• Apply best practices to your internal IT processes to effectively document and manage these organizational changes

42. Best Practices To Protect The Diminishing Knowledge Base And Retain Expertise For Long-Term Business Survival

• Asses how your company is retaining expert knowledge and closing the widening gap to minimize the impact of anticipated employee retirement
• Successfully retain institutional memory by having knowledge transferred from one individual to another
• Effectively divide processes and procedures to allow for transparent knowledge harvesting from experts
• Transform your organization into one that has an environment of retaining knowledge to ensure business sustainability